5 sentences with 'rapacious'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rapacious and other words derived from it.
• « Once the Aztecs realised the extent of the Spaniards' rapacious designs they drove them out of the city, but then a smallpox epidemic undermined their ability to fight. »
• « The conduct of rapacious soldiers had been so appalling in the wars, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, that many states undertook the long and difficult process of creating standing professional armies to report to noble officers, rather than simply hiring mercenaries and letting them run amok. »
• « A common approach was to offer 'protection' from supposedly more rapacious European powers such as Portugal in exchange for trade monopolies in spice-producing regions. »
• « He skilfully used that perception to his advantage, presenting the bank problem as a struggle of ordinary people against a rapacious elite class that cared nothing for the public and pursued only its own selfish ends. »